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LONDON, UK -- MPs of all parties have called on journalists and members of the public to "wipe those stupid grins off their faces", following Jacqui Smith's alleged abuse of taxpayers' porn.
"You should think yourselves lucky," said one MP. "Do you know there's actually a provision in the Parliament Act of 1732 whereby an MP can, on St Piglet's day in a leap year, require members of the local peasantry to present themselves in the town square, that they might perform fellatio on him or his nominated representative? Whereas all we're asking now is that you pick up the tab for the occasional bit of trumpet-polishing. Look, sometimes - just sometimes - the poor chap likes to forget that he's married to the Home Secretary, and watch people putting things up each others bottoms for a while. And from the waist down he's basically a goat. Can't you cut him some slack?"
Labour party sources insist that, rather than focussing on a single, isolated incident, the press should celebrate the tremendous positive contribution made to society by our elected officials. In between furtive bouts of onanism, many MPs find time to run protection rackets, host relationship counselling workshops for trans-species couples, and even attend debates and talk to the occasional constituent so long as he's been carefully cleaned first.
But Smith is now facing calls to explain why she is employing Mr Tumnus anyway, and how she managed to get him back from Narnia in the first place.
Under Commons rules, MPs are allowed to claim "up to £10,000 a year for dabbling in the occult, on condition that any eldritch beings they manage to invoke are made available as and when required, to help reanimate Peter Mandelson." However, MPs are expressly not permitted to bring back any "half-human hybrids from other worlds" or "foul demons of the pit", without first placing them in quarantine and issuing them with ID cards.
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"Look, if you take the top half of a human, right, and the back legs of a goat, well... there's something missing," said Goat-Human relationship counsellor and jobbing public servant Ed Balls. "If you think about it. An essential piece, you might say, of the puzzle. I'm not saying it was her, I just think this needs to be thought about in more detail. That's all I'm saying."
- Gressard Androgynous-Hittite "First pot, now porn? What are you up to, Jacqui?". Bristol Evening Post, April 2 2009

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Can you spot the difference between noob and inexperienced, or maybe uneducated?
I know noobish players get up everyone's goat, usually after just one glance or experience.
Things like these earn a player the title of noob:
- Unsockected or incorrectly gemed gear.
- Turning up at the wrong instance
- Wearing gear with the wrong stats.
- Rolling on gear that is more appropriate for another class.
- Inability to kite
- Inability to trap
- Asking "stupid" questions
- Not using correct rank spells
- Not being able to find your way back through an instance after a wipe.
- Selling things for the wrong price on the AH.
- Not knowing the little red man means you need to repair your gear.
The list goes on and on. I am sure you can think of many more yourself.
Real Life Noob
Something happened to me over the weekend that made me reevaluate my labeling of noobs.
Now admittedly this is unrelated to WoW, and it was such an extreme situation that it was perfectly obvious, but it caused those fused wires in my brain to fire and set off that light-bulb sitting above my head.
While mowing the lawn I could hear distant calls from my son. He was standing at the closed front door screaming at me to open it so he could join me.
Thing was, he had just left me, run through the open back door to get to the front door.
So I told him patiently to go around the back, but then that insidious WoW noob frustration meter peaked and I unkindly thought:
Geez, why couldn't he work out something that easy by himself
Of course, immediately afterwards I chastised myself for the thought. A 2.5 year old doesn't think in the same way, or of the same available options, as a nearly 42 year old.
That's when the light-bulb lit up.
WoW is often criticized as an easy mode game. In fact that is something that attractive to both 1st time and hardcore players. The majority of the game is simple point and click, but there are challenges presented that keep hardcore players on their toes.
What often separates the noob from the leet player is awareness of the options and education into the best way of doing things.
I think it is widely accepted that the percentage of players that research the game, from class mechanics through to instance and raid guides is relatively low. At least the QQ around raid groups that don't read guides appears quite frequently, and these players are more often than not considered to be good at their class.
What developmental age are they?
I dare say that the majority of noob players are at a wow development stage that equates to pre or primary school. They are keen to explore and learn, yet have not yet gained the knowledge and experience to move them into a later stage of development.
Related to this of course is the danger in feeding the noob fish, rather than teaching them how to fish.
Fostering Enthusiasm
There is a good chance that the enthusiasm to play can also be fostered into an enthusiasm of learning about the game. Assuming of course that they haven't had either:
- Information delivered on a platter, ensuring they have never developed the desire to research. Or
- Their 1st forays into questions rebuffed with noob titles, this preventing them from ever accepting assistance from experienced players.
I am going to strive to maintain a similar level of patience with noob players as I do with my son. I figure that they deserve the opportunity to grow and learn in the game as everyone does outside of the game.
Of course, it occurs to me that I am still a noob, especially since WoLK came to us. At level 76.8 I still can't find instance entrances, and with only 2 zones and 2 instances cleared so far, I would undoubtedly appear as a noob to the average level 80.
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goluhaque wrote:btw, are we people entitled to ask whether the new code is based on MVC? If yes, which framework? Zend?
Uh dude, they've written their own shoddy MVC system. You have no idea....
goluhaque wrote:btw, are we people entitled to ask whether the new code is based on MVC? If yes, which framework? Zend?
goluhaque wrote:btw, are we people entitled to ask whether the new code is based on MVC? If yes, which framework? Zend?
Monica wrote:I proceeded due to the fact that NightQuest was clearly elected by the community and believe it or not, by Silent-Shadow himself.
sanddbox wrote:I honestly and respectfully do not believe you are the right person to administrate HTS. You've been on IRC actively for at least a month now, and yet I have never seen you respond to me or other staff, with the exception of Monica. 2 days ago, I submitted a list of changes Goatboy and I had brainstormed, and I had literally no reply; you didn't even acknowledge that you had received my message.
I admit I have been a staff member for a short time, but with the exception of the occasional server maintenance, I have literally seen you do nothing for HTS. You remain inactive, you refuse to hire the right staff members (NightQuest is a case in point), and I have seen you make no effort to improve HTS. Despite your unwillingness to work, you refuse to give access to anyone else so that they may get work done.
This is not acceptable for someone in control of our paypal account, emails, servers, and DNS (at least partially). In fact, at this point I'm not sure you're not simply pocketing all the money HTS makes. I guarantee you, if you ask any intelligent member of HTS who has been here for more than two years, they will tell you that you are the bane of progress here at HTS.
You cannot keep a steel grip on power and not use it in any way whatsoever. You provide no transparency; in fact, you are active exclusively when a takeover is forming.
Wells wrote:By the way. I did make my own programming mission about 6 months ago. I've contacted Kage directly multiple times and had no helpful response.
tremor77 wrote:As a community site admin myself I have to stand behind Kage in regards to his authority, it should not be questioned... and I know how little time one can spend to be actually "involved" in the community when you spend most of the time trying to actually keep it going. On the other hand Kage, I think you need to develop a good "team" that can handle a lot more authority, and you shouldn't keep such a tight leash. Everyone involved here seems genuinely interested in moving forward and make this place the best HTS it can be.
Defience wrote:Suggestion: Staff meeting?
Wells wrote:When it comes to meetings and lectures and pretty much anything else, IRC is the worst communication medium you could possibly choose.
Forums and mailing lists and google groups are where real progress is made. People can respond from different time zones, they can take their time and prepare well-thought-out responses. IRC should never be used to get anything important organized.
Wells wrote:When it comes to meetings and lectures and pretty much anything else, IRC is the worst communication medium you could possibly choose.
Along those lines, I like the idea of making contribution easier. So I have some suggestions to add in regards to presentations/lectures. I like the idea of live lectures but I think if we allowed other forms of submission we'd get a lot more content. For example, users should be able to make videos for HTS and submit them as lectures. Good solid video lectures are hard to come by, and if we could start building our own collection - well, I don't see how it could hurt. Pre-recorded audio lectures with a links/notes page wouldn't hurt either. Pre-recorded lectures could be placed in with the old recorded live lectures. And if the live lectures were also given notes/links pages - all the better.
And as for the live presentations, we seem a bit stuck in the past. IRC and Ventrilo, really? There's something to be said for simplicity and proven methods, but we could also give solid video/audio presentations through something like tinychat or stickam. The presenter doesn't need a webcam or anything, they can show their computer though manycam/similar-software to better illustrate what they're talking about. Now unless the devs are really lazy, I'm not suggesting that we actually use tinychat. Instead, we could easily set up our own chat room with audio/video to be used only during presentations that request it.
Kage wrote:1) For one thing, you're almost never even in the staff channels at all, so how are you ever going to see me respond to staff? As for your document, I received it, but keep in mind you're always pinging me at times I'm not directly in front of my computer (God fucking forbid I'm not present 24/7!), then promptly leave before I get the chance to respond. Secondly, you sent me a docx file. Google Docs it, or something other than an MS Word file, or I'm not going to read it.
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2) Well, as you said, you've been a staffer for a short time, and you really don't know what you're talking about. For the record, I never said I refuse to hire NightQuest in some capacity, I said Monica does NOT have that right. When he and I are online and have time to sit and discuss things, his position within HTS will be decided. For now, though, like he said in his reply, he wasn't even aware he was awarded such a position, so until he and I discuss his responsibilities and the like, he'll remain in the capacity he was before Monica made her unauthorized proclamation.
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3) Oh, here we go again with the "Kage is stealing monies!" line. I'm not even going to entertain this one any longer, but I will say this: Our servers cost a LOT of money, and our ad income has decreased to a point that for the past few months, I've been padding the HTS PayPal with my own personal paychecks to keep it afloat. So, sure, of course I'm stealing money when I'm fucking funding it.
4) So, apparently, operating development in such a way where people have access only to the tools they are responsible for, and the ability to get anything done via some clever development is not how the world should work? So, I suppose every goddamn professional developer position at every company is doing things wrong, too. For one thing, the access granted to HTS devs was done to the degree of what they were responsible for. If you were missions developer, you do not need access to the code for the admin sections, forums, etc. Similarly, if you're working on the forums, you do not need access to the other sections. And if you needed information, asking is one way, but if you're seriously not intelligent enough to problem-solve and figure clever solutions (There was a sandbox where you could upload anything you wanted. Gee, I wonder what utilities you can upload that'll give you information?), maybe you shouldn't be developing in the first place.
But I digress... Just so you're aware, much of the Recode devs have FULL ROOT access to the boxes they're working on. Further, the project is very transparent, as the code is freely available, marginally documented, and visible to anyone who just simply asks. How is this opaque and holding things with a steel grip?
Kage wrote:Wells wrote:By the way. I did make my own programming mission about 6 months ago. I've contacted Kage directly multiple times and had no helpful response.
I'm still waiting on some code to upload. I don't have anything material from you.
mutantsrus wrote:HTS never changes, eh?
Still drama, a lack of active devs, and Monica sticking her hand in the dev cookie jar past her bedtime.
Like I said before, I'd love to help out around here again, but only as an official dev this time. Years ago HTS milked me for missions and didn't really give anything back. (Although Monica did give me a spiffy title which was appreciated)
I was contacted by Bren2010 about coding some missions, but I'd like to hear the opinions of ALL of the devs as well.
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#Kobo At @WeAreHighRoad The Office Office Party
Update:I forgot a name in the list of people who were at the High Road offices. I also forgot to add in my thoughts on the Kobo e-reader itself as we got to play with them at the High Road offices. Those have now been added.
As I mentioned in my post last night I was going to a super secret event that I couldn't say much about.
Well, as you may have guessed by the title of this post and the picture above it was an office party hosted by High Road Communications (@WeAreHighRoad) at their offices in downtown Toronto to watch an epsidode of the hit NBC show The Office. The reason for the party was in the episode one of the characters buys, and sort of looks like he became really addicted to, a Kobo E-Reader. For the tweets from last night check out the hashtag #Kobo although to be honest it looks like a lot of people started using the hashtag in a spammy manner since…hey it WAS a trending topic…these things happen when things get high profile!
I was invited to the event by Rayanne Langdon @RLangdon who works at High Road Communications and when I got into their offices – which are beautiful by the way – I got to see a whole bunch of Twitter friends including @jpuopolo, @karimkanji, @CarolynVan, @AlexBlom, @anulman, @rochlatinsky, @phjoshua, @hipurbangirl, @bossladwendy, @kat, and @sachasayan along with some new folks whose Twitter handles I, unfortunately, didn't learn assuming they have The Twitter with one notable exception @jdotdashed who I had a great Back To The Future conversation with which we have to continue some time really soon. (Further Update 2011.01.22:) As well I got to meet @metheusBound who is a really nice guy although to be honest I didn't really have the chance to get to know him…soon, hopefully, I will!
As to the Kobo e-reader itself. It was the first time I have ever played with one when I wasn't looking at it in a store so it was a lot better chance to experience it. It is a really cool device and I am in total envy of @bossladwendy who won one of them for the best tweet during the event. I never found out the battery specifications on the Kobo but it apparently holds 10,000 books which is pretty awesome. I was tempted to say when I was writing this "Who needs 10,000 books?" and, "I don't know anyone who owns 10,000 books", but the fact of the matter is that many people said similar things about MP3 players and music collections in the late 90s and early 00s and look where we are now.
I liked the Kobo. A LOT.
The Kobo is a brilliant little device and I could totally see myself getting an one at some time in the near future. A few aspects I would like to find out about it (before) is whether or not I can "print" longer webpage posts and articles into a format I can throw onto a Kobo and read on it. I find with longer articles that is what I often prefer to do rather than staring at a computer screen.
As well, I want to find out if there exists any sort of waterproof case for the device (or if it is waterproof itself) because I think we have all been to the beach or pool or in a bath with a book/magazine and dropped it in or gotten splashed. With a regular book we just let it dry and while it will never be the same again the book will be readable 9/10 times once it dries out. If I get water on my Kobo did I just lose 10,000 books and a (ballpark) $150 device? Because that would SUCK.
I am sorry to say that I didn't make it out to #RegiftTO which I TOTALLY wanted to do but it just didn't work out. The above picture was in a gift bag in my car the whole night waiting to go to #RegiftTO but alas it didn't work out.
I did have a A LOT of fun at #LoserKaraoke as I usually do. I sang the song "Criminal by Eminem", it was an awesome trainwreck, but people told me I was impressive in just knowing the words and saying them fast enough. I also finally found someone to sing "The Internet Is For Porn" from the musical "Avenue Q"! I did the girl part and @SachaSayan did the guy part. I didn't really care I was more happy to have just done it after all this time! I am also told that someone has a video of me doing "Criminal" so I am going to endeavor to get it for all of you folks!
January 24, 2011 at 10:17 am
Hello, Dan!
I represent Kobo, I am their Community Manager. I wanted to thank you so much for watching our network TV debut last week.
In answer to your questions, you can take web pages, blogs, and snippets with you to read on the go, due to Kobo's partnership with Instapaper, which is a snippet collecting service which is free.
Here's how to do that:
1) Download your Instapaper ePub by visiting http://www.instapaper.com/epub
2) Add the Instapaper ePub via SD Card on the eReader or desktop & sync to your eReader.
If you're using an iphone or an ipad, you just need to have your instapaper account details ready, and you're all set.
As for the waterproof cover… we are working with a number of different 3rd party manufacturers to create unique, functional cases for our eReaders, and we have had many requests to create a waterproof one. When one becomes available, we will make sure you know.
Lastly, our batteries last up to 8000 page turns (useful if you're reading ayn rand and james joyce on the same airplane trip!) The eReader has the onboard memory to hold 1000 eBooks, and using an SD card, that capacity can go up to 10 000 eBooks.
If you have any more questions, please e-mail me at my address I typed in to WordPress.
Karen Geier
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There is a way to get chronically homeless people off San Francisco's streets. It will require a sweeping plan - intensive, sustained and expensive.
It will mean enforcing existing laws against living on the street - but not just rousting people and throwing them in jail. Or giving them a room to get started on normal lives. Or offering walk-in drug and alcohol clinics. Or merely sending counselors out to do on-the-spot triage on the street.
It will mean making sure there is a bed for everyone in need, and comprehensive services right there in the building to treat the drug, alcohol and mental problems that afflict them - a concept called "supportive housing. "
The trouble is there is no such plan. Models exist in other cities, including New York, and San Francisco already has some programs that work.
But there aren't enough services here for everyone who should have them, and too much is left up to the homeless. If the hard core were capable of pursuing follow-up care on their own, they wouldn't be in the gutter to begin with, experts say.
Another major problem is governmental paralysis. City politicians have never committed to a single comprehensive strategy for getting the hundreds of millions of dollars it will take to put the most chronically homeless people in supportive housing.
Now, after two decades of crisis, experts say it will take at least $450 million to build the minimum housing necessary. This will mean at least doubling the city's current stock of 2,500 supportive housing units.
"Keep in mind (supportive housing) is a fairly young industry, only around about a decade," said Maryann Leshin, California program director of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporation for Supportive Housing, a leading nonprofit organization for arranging such housing nationwide. "But while there has been good support for this work in San Francisco, it's really a matter of ramping it up now.
"And nobody has been able to come up with one huge plan to get everything done."
The public clearly would like to see that plan. Last year, voters in San Francisco passed the controversial Care Not Cash initiative to replace welfare payments with services - later shelved by court order. And in November, they approved the anti-panhandling Proposition M as well as Proposition J, which requires the city to provide separate shelters for homeless families, seniors and the disabled. All passed handily.
In Tuesday's runoff, Supervisor Gavin Newsom, who created Care Not Cash, faces Supervisor Matt Gonzalez, who also makes homelessness one of his central campaign issues.
Both advocate cleaning up shelters and providing more supportive housing. But like so many city politicians over the past 20 years, the two men cannot agree on how to do it. And whatever his vision, the winner will face the daunting task of uniting the city's historically fractious collection of advocates and officials.
The lack of a sweeping plan drew fire last year from the office of the controller. An 85-page report lambasted virtually every aspect of San Francisco's strategy on homelessness.
An overarching policy that all officials support would help the city get more funding and provide services tailored to the various needs of homeless people, the report said. But before that can happen, the city needs better data on its homeless population.
The data is so poor now that it is impossible to know how much federal and state financial help the city should be getting, or how much has been lost by inaction.
"There are a lot of nice people doing a lot of decent things, but not with an agreed-upon goal and not with a plan on how to get there," City Controller Ed Harrington said when the report was released.
What the 3,000 to 5,000 chronically homeless people need are clean living spaces with round-the-clock services in the same building, experts agree. That means drug and mental health counselors, job counselors and medical services.
So why hasn't it been done?
"God only knows," said Don Stannard-Friel, sociology professor at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, who studies poverty and homelessness in San Francisco. "The homeless people are just the symptom of the problem."
Stannard-Friel said the crisis in San Francisco is an example of having the best of intentions but being unable to carry them out. But even if the focus improves, it's no easy fix. "If we're going to create a system that works, it's going to take some big money," he said.
And smart, focused thinking. There is already much of that going on. It needs to be even more directed.
San Francisco knows what works.
The Seneca Hotel on notoriously seedy Sixth Street is one of several supportive housing complexes contracted out by the city. It has helped hundreds of people off the street. The same goes for Direct Access to Housing, the city's premier supportive housing program. Westside Lodge, one of the city's oldest and largest residential mental health centers, has been nursing the impoverished mentally ill into permanent housing since 1964.
All are models of treating the most troubled homeless people with an array of services while housing them. And they have a track record of keeping them off the street for years.
Since the program began in 1998, 85 percent of the 650 residents in Direct Access to Housing have stayed housed, and their visits to hospital emergency rooms dropped by 60 percent, saving the city millions of dollars a year. Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, said he considers Direct Access the top model in the nation for ending homelessness.
"The irony of homelessness in San Francisco is that it is as visible a problem as anywhere in the country, but the city has some of the most creative and innovative programs for handling it - Direct Access to Housing and others like it," Mangano said.
But there's not enough money allocated to duplicate these units in sufficient numbers. Because of political inertia and the economic downturn, the city has been unable to summon the money effectively, quickly.
"What most people don't seem to understand is that this is a very long- term commitment," said Marty Fleetwood, director of HomeBase, which studies homelessness throughout California. "It's not like you do supportive housing for a couple years and go away when the budget has trouble. You do it for the long term. It's endless."
With federal and state budgets tight, one promising avenue would be going after private money - an idea pushed in a new report by a consortium of major Bay Area foundations, titled "Ending Bay Area Homelessness: The Philanthropic Role." Co-author Cassandra Benjamin said cities such as Chicago and Columbus, Ohio, have turned successfully to foundations to help create supportive housing.
San Francisco is already getting its fair share of basic federal and state aid, but it would probably get more funding if it had a long-range, unified strategy, she said. Mangano agreed, saying if the city created a single 10- year plan to end homelessness - as New York and Los Angeles have - it could better lobby for help.
Because of its unified plan, New York was able to tap into a variety of federal and state funds - shifting some homeless off local rolls into national programs such as Supplemental Security Income, and capturing more grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"If we could create a comprehensive plan, show concrete progress and goals,
we could get more federal and private money," said Benjamin, who oversees homeless programs at the $218 million Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation in San Mateo. "That's huge. We spend an awful lot of time talking about the problem, but not enough about the solutions."
Many point to New York as the example for how to address homelessness, because its streets were cleared of tens of thousands of indigents in the past decade. Now it has fewer hard-core homeless than San Francisco. In New York's most recent head count, in February, workers found 1,780 homeless sleeping outside in Manhattan, where virtually all of its hard core are believed to stay. By comparison, 4,535 were found on San Francisco's streets in a similar count around the same time.
And New York City's general population is 10 times that of San Francisco's:
8 million, compared with 800,000.
One reason for New York's success: The city spends $1 billion a year on helping its homeless people, much of it on supportive housing. San Francisco spends $200 million, only one-eighth of it on supportive housing. More than a third of the $200 million is spent in this city on triage measures-$77.8 million on jail and emergency medical services.
New York City gets up to $200 million per year from the state for its supportive housing services. San Francisco gets up to $6 million per year from California, and spends $25 million to maintain the city's 2,500 supportive housing units.
"If we could find enough housing units, rehabilitate them and put full services in them, that would be the answer - and that would be hugely expensive," said Trent Rhorer, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services, which runs the city's supportive housing programs with the Department of Health and a handful of private organizations. "But you ask what my ideal world would be? That would be it."
What turned the tide for New York was vigorous enforcement of laws against panhandling and loitering - and creating enough shelter for everyone who was rousted, said New York Police Detective Walter Burns, spokesman for the department. State law required the city to have a bed for anyone who asked.
"The important thing is we had places for them to go - supportive housing units and shelters," Burns said. "We were persistent. Our guys went out, and every time we encountered the homeless, we offered them a choice of shelter or moving. And if they didn't want the shelter, we kept them moving.
"We kind of wore them out so much, they finally went inside."
New York has spent $421 million since 1989 building 7,381 new units of supportive housing, said Carol Abrams, spokeswoman for that city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. With those units, New York now has 36, 000 beds - supportive housing, plus shelters and other transitional programs - occupied by homeless people every night. San Francisco has about 5,500 total beds occupied every night.
"The police basically help point out people for us, and our community groups and counselors are the ones who make the real contact for getting people inside," Abrams said.
Philadelphia has used the same tactic to similar effect.
"If you are homeless here, the police may give you a ticket - but before they give you a ticket, they call us and we dispatch a team within 20 minutes, " said Sister Mary Scullion, who co-founded and runs the city's premier homeless aid organization, Project HOME (Housing, Opportunities for Employment,
Medical Care, Education). "Because we move fast, we can help the homeless person get into housing or a program right away."
In 1997, Philadelphia had 850 hard-core homeless people on its streets. Today 200 to 400 are living outside, depending on how cold it is - out of a total homeless population of 6,500. The city's overall population is 1.5 million.
Since 2001, San Francisco has had a plan for a street-to-success program for solving all homelessness called the Continuum of Care. But it has remained sidelined by political squabbling because it is so far-reaching and potentially expensive, and no one has projected its costs.
For the hard core, however, there is an estimate.
Creating enough supportive housing for the minimum 3,000 most chronic cases would cost about $450 million, estimates the Corporation for Supportive Housing. That assumes that the city builds half the units itself and leases the other half in existing buildings that would be modified. Maintaining those units with full services would cost about $30 million per year, according to figures from the corporation and the San Francisco Department of Human Services.
Leshin, of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, said the city would have to pay about $150 million of the up-front costs, with the rest coming from the federal and state governments, a standard formula for supportive housing projects. Money from charitable foundations could play a role, too. The city would have to strategize and lobby hard, she said.
"If you house the hardest to serve and the most needy (the hard-core 3, 000), you'll see a visible reduction in the number of homeless on the streets -
if not a full elimination," Leshin said. "It's our absolute belief that this is solvable."
The biggest federal grant in some time to the city, however, was awarded this fall. It was just $6 million, to develop or revamp fewer than 200 units of supportive housing.
"Nobody would say this would be easy," Leshin said.
One of the best examples of support and housing mixing effectively is at the 170-room Seneca Hotel, a former Sixth Street dive that was rehabilitated four years ago under a city program that creates supportive housing in existing buildings.
It is run by the nonprofit City Housing Inc., and much of its success can be traced to its manager, Ana Bolton-Arguello. A former homeless heroin addict who cleaned up 10 years ago, she knows every con line in the book and goes nose to nose with drug dealers trying to invade her building.
She is as skilled at detecting whether an addict is backsliding as she is at running the extensive jobs, art therapy and counseling services at her hotel.
"You have to push with one hand, pull with the other," she said. If you try to force troubled people to be helped, they will make you the focus of their rage, she said. The trick is to persuade them, assertively.
That sort of alchemy, however, does no good unless outreach workers spend a lot of time with the troubled. Not just an hour here and there, as often happens now.
"You have to have sustained interaction with the people we're talking about, some of that in clinics, some in outreach, some even with the police," said HomeBase's Fleetwood. "Find them, bring them into the housing, then treat them. All three of those elements are going to have to blend for it to work."
In the early 1980s, when homelessness emerged as a citywide problem, the thinking was to address the underlying issues of the troubled person before finding housing. But now, said city Health Department Director Mitch Katz, most experts nationwide believe it is crucial to get the housing first. Treatment can then begin immediately.
The idea, called "harm reduction," is to work the client into services a step at a time, while keeping a close eye for slips. This is what Bolton- Arguello does.
"We've found this approach works, and it saves money," Katz said. For instance, he said, one day in the hospital costs about $900 - about the same cost as keeping that person in a supportive housing unit for a month.
Jazzmun Groome, 27, could be a poster woman for the Seneca Hotel. She'd still be on the street without it.
She moved into her room three years ago after sleeping in parks, the sidewalk, shelters and cheap rooms for three years before that. An abusive relationship kicked her into homelessness without a job, she said, "and I was too stubborn to take help, so I just stayed wherever I could until I decided I'd had enough."
Employment programs and the stable environment at the Seneca, plus its affordable rent - on a sliding scale up to $450 and heavily subsidized through welfare - made it possible for her to restart her life. This month, she started work again as a carpenter for the first time in seven years.
She and her partner, Sharon Banks, have a 7-month-old baby, and they plan to move as soon as they save enough for their own place.
"It took me a long time outside to get over my pride, to accept help, but once you're willing to jump through the hoops of the system, you can stop being homeless," she said. "You have to follow the building rules, go look for the jobs, take the training. You have to wake up. They help you do that at a place like the Seneca.
"Things are looking up now. They don't have to stay bad."
What it would cost
Estimated funding required to create enough supportive housing to serve 3, 000 hard-core homeless people in San Francisco:
$450 million to build or lease an additional 3,000 units
$150 million of that would probably have to come from city funds
$300 million of that would probably have to come from state and federal funds
$30 million a year needed to maintain the units with services .Sources: Corporation for Supportive Housing, San Francisco Department of Human Service
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Find the entire series, more photographs, previous Chronicle stories on the homeless and readers' comments at www.sfgate.com/homeless/ .
Join staff writer Kevin Fagan and photographer Brant Ward for an online chat about the homeless series at 11 a.m. today on SFGate.com.
Chat online with the Silvers, the family profiled Monday who are living in their van, Friday at 3:30 p.m. .
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I like to think I'm lucky.
Take me to Vegas, and it's probably I'll win you money (really, a Jack and a two is a winning hand for me in Texas Hold 'Em). I enjoy the thrill of betting, though get just as excited over penny slots as hundred dollar bets (well, maybe that's a stretch, but not having lots of extra $$ I'd have a heart attack before winning if lots was at stake).
I also love brackets. Wayyyy more than basketball. But year after year, I tend to perform well in brackets knowing nothing about the sport (see above: I'm lucky).
Luckily, in this month o' brackets, I have more options from which to choose, and on a subject I'm knowledgeable: Books!
The Morning News is at it again with their new Tournament of Books (#ToB for your Tweeters). I'm engaged: THE HELP has already beat LOWBOY, and LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN has overtaken Nami Munn's lovely debut, MILES FROM NOWHERE (which I read when it first came out in hardcover and found it to be amazing).
Not only are books just as exciting as basketball (or more-so, in some cases), these "competitions" are judged by well-written experts. After reading Rosecran Baldwin's review of why he chose McCann instead of Munn, I've already ordered LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN and am eagerly anticipating its arrival.
On a side note, Baldwin happens to be the author of an upcoming Riverhead title, YOU LOST ME THERE (August 12), which has officially climbed up on my TBR stack after having read, and loved, his thoughts and style.
Now that you're hooked on the ToB, who do you think will win?
Onto Bracket #2! The fabulous Jen Forbus over at Jen's Book Thoughts, is hosting a bracket for the "World's Favorite Detective" tournament!
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(Editor's note: On April 8, 2009, Genentech announced it was voluntarily pulling Raptiva from the market.)
Oct. 16, 2008 -- The psoriasis drug Raptiva is getting a "black box" warning, the FDA's sternest warning, about the risk of life-threatening infections including a rare brain infection and meningitis.
The FDA announced that news today. Raptiva's warning will highlight the risk of opportunistic infections including:
- Bacterial sepsis: a blood infection that can affect organs throughout the body
- Viral meningitis: a brain infection
- Invasive fungal disease: fungal infection that can spread throughout the body
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML): a rare brain infection
Raptiva is given by injection once a week to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who are candidates for systemic (whole body) therapy or phototherapy (light therapy) to control their psoriasis. Raptiva works by suppressing the immune system to reduce psoriasis flare-ups, but suppressing the immune system can raise the risk of serious infections and malignancies.
Raptiva's label will also be updated to include data from studies done on young mice that show a potential risk for permanent suppression of the immune system when given repeatedly in this age group, which the FDA says is equivalent to children up to 14 years old. Raptiva isn't approved for use in children younger than 18.
The FDA ordered Raptiva's "black box" warning and other label changes after receiving reports of serious infections in some patients taking Raptiva, notes Janet Woodcock, MD, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a news release.
But the FDA acknowledges that those reports, which include one case of PML, don't prove that Raptiva caused any illnesses.
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The FDA isn't telling patients to stop taking Raptiva.
"Doctors and other prescribers should carefully evaluate and weigh the risk/benefit profile of Raptiva for patients who would be more susceptible to the risks," Woodcock says.
The FDA also urges patients to get up to date on their vaccinations before starting Raptiva, and not to get vaccinations while taking Raptiva, because they may not develop immunity to the vaccination virus.
Patients taking Raptiva should also watch for signs and symptoms of infection, as well as these problems:
- Confusion, dizziness or loss of balance, difficulty talking or walking, and vision problems (possible symptoms of PML)
- Dizziness upon standing, weakness, or jaundice (possible symptoms of anemia)
- Bruising, bleeding gums, pinpoint-sized red or purple dots under the skin (possible symptoms of thrombocytopenia, or low platelet count)
- Worsening of psoriasis or arthritis
- Sudden onset of numbness, tingling, or weakness in the arms, legs, or face (possible signs of a nervous system disorder).
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Duda does it, again
The big bat of Lucas Duda came through in the clutch for the Buffalo Bisons.
The Herd's 2010 Most Valuable Player had the biggest hit on Friday night in Rochester with an eighth-inning home run in a 3-2 Bisons win over Rochester at Frontier Field.
Duda's second blast on the season broke a 2-2 tie and gave Buffalo a split of a four-game series with the Red Wings.
It was only a matter of time until Duda's powerful swing had an impact on this Bisons' season. After 42 extra-base hits in 70 games with the team in 2010, the 25-year old slugger had just one double and no home runs in his first 17 games with Buffalo in 2011.
Duda doubled in his first at-bat on Friday, driving a Yorman Bazardo pitch over the head of the speedy Ben Revere and scoring Kirk Nieuwenhuis for the game's first run. Duda then scored on single from Valentino Pascucci for a 2-0 edge.
Rochester tied it at two in the first inning and the game stayed locked up until the eighth. Duda led off the inning by taking a 1-2 pitch to deep centerfield for the game winning run.
Duda now has three doubles and two home runs in his last five games.
Jenrry Mejia started for Buffalo but could only get through four innings of work. He used 39 of his 81 pitches in the first inning as the Red Wings scored their only two runs of the game.
Mike O'Connor earned the win with three innings of work. Dale Thayer worked the eighth and ninth inning for his first save of the season.
The Bisons will now travel to Lehigh Valley for a four-game series against the IronPigs.
BISONS NOTES: Statistically ranked 14th of 14 teams in defense, the Bisons played errorless baseball in three of the four games in their series against Rochester…Jesus Feliciano finished the game 2-4…Catcher Ronny Paulino was activated by the Mets off his mlb injury rehab assignment with the Bisons. Paulino played seven games with Buffalo.


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Mary is recovering from a tragic loss and has decided to get a dog for companionship. She is not speaking to God at the moment because she is confused about how God could allow her new situation and is feeling distant in her faith. She is struggling to understand and feels God is silent and harsh. But she can speak to her new puppy and she is not even so very amazed when Rufus actually speaks back to her. Whether this miraculous conversation is real or not doesn't matter. It becomes the catalyst for change and the nudge she needs. An inner voice can be instrumental in turning us in the right direction and when that voice takes the form of a miniature schnauzer, it is charming! People who have dogs regularly imagine what they are thinking so it might not even come as a complete surprise when they actually venture to voice their thoughts, ideas, or questions.
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I was just thinking about various puzzles in IF. At times they become so difficult that many players will just give up. I know there are some who enjoy solving the most difficult challenges, but shouldn't IF be more balanced? I don't think the puzzles should overshadow the story.
Anyone old enough to remember the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" text adventure? Great story, but you spent so much effort on the puzzles that it was hard to enjoy. At least that's how I felt after spending a few hours trying to get the Babel fish in my ear.
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Flying Dutch Game Notes
NCAA Regional at Hope College
Friday & Saturday, March 5-6, 2010
The Flying Dutch (27-1) are playing in the NCAA Division III tournament for the fifth year in-a-row and for the 12th time in school history. The Flying Dutch were national champions in 1990 and 2006 and advanced to the Elite Eight each of the last two years (2008 and 2009). Hope has an all-time record of 20-9 (.690) in NCAA games.
Hope's only defeat of the season was on December 28th to Carthage 51-47 in a tournament at Oglethorpe, Ga. Carthage (22-4) is also in the NCAA tournament field. Hope has an 18-game winning streak.
Hope is ranked fourth and DePauw 11th is this week's USA Today/ESPN Division III Coaches' Poll.
How the Teams Got to the NCAA Tournament
The Flying Dutch over the past four seasons have a 109-8 cumulative record. The only seniors on this year's Hope team are starters Philana Greene (5-9 forward from Grandville, Mich.) and Jenny Cowen (5-9 guard from Dexter, Mich.). Greene, who was named the Defensive Player of the Year in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA), has set a Hope single season record for steals (95) and is the Hope career leader for steals (311). Cowen ranks third all-time at Hope in three-point baskets with 138 behind Jordyn Boles 218, 2004-08; Bria Ebels, 188, 2002-06; and Nicki Mannes, 155, 1991-95.
Philana Greene and junior Carrie Snikkers (6-3 post from Jenison, Mich./Unity Christian HS), were named to the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference first team. Snikkers was honored for the second straight season and Greene for the second time in her career (2008 and 2010). Snikkers missed eight games this season with a stress fracture in the foot. She leads the team in scoring (12.6 ppg) and rebounding (7.1 rpg).
Hope has won 20-or-more games for 12 straight years. In 14 seasons under coach Brian Morehouse the Flying Dutch are 343-59 (.853).
Hope posted an 18-0 record at DeVos Fieldhouse this season. The Flying Dutch bring a 59-game home floor winning streak into the NCAA tournament. Their record at DeVos Fieldhouse since the opening is 2005-06 is 78-1.
Stat Shorttakes: Junior Rachael Kutney (St. Claire Shores, Mich./Lakeshore HS) is shooting .556 (65/117). It would rank fourth all-time for a season. The record is .597 (80/134) by Lindsay Lange, 2006-07... Fourteen different players made a three-point basket this season... Freshman Liz Ellis (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) is shooting .456 (31/68) from three-point range. It would rank second all-time for a season. The record is .510 (25/49) by Sarah Jurik, 2005-06... Carrie Snikkers has blocked 55 shots this season. The single season record is 59 by Snikkers in 2008-09. It took 30 games for Snikkers to set her record; this year's total has come in 20 games.
Hope Stat Rankings in Division III (424 teams): #2 in steals per game at 16.6 (Farmingdale State leads at 20.6)... #4 in scoring margin at 23.5 (Amherst leads at 28.5)... #4 in 3-Point FG Defense at 24.3% (Kean leads at 22.2%... #5 in blocked shots per game at 6.3 (Kean leads at 7.5)... #9 in turnover margin at 7.71 (Farmingdale State leads at 14.73)... #12 in field goal percentage defense at 32.6% (Mount St. Mary, N.Y. leads at 26.3%... #13 in scoring offense at 75.1 ppg (Centenary, N.J. leads at 83.0)... #15 in scoring defense at 61.7 ppg (Mt. St. Mary, N.Y. leads at 43.4).
Both Hope College basketball teams are playing in the NCAA Division III championships for the fifth consecutive year and for the seventh time since 2002. The Flying Dutchmen are playing at Stevens Point, Wisc.


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Firstly, one of the main solutions for garage roofs these days is EPDM. There is also uPVC as a reliable and popular option too, although EPDM is widely considered to have a few more advantages than this other material.
One of the key benefits of EPDM is that it is extremely long lasting, and is in fact considered one of the most durable materials around for roofing purposes. In fact, some of the first rubber roofs that were installed decades ago are still in top shape and protecting buildings today.
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Navel Maneuvers (ネーブルジム!ゆきやまのたたかい! Navel Gym! The Battle of the Snowy Mountain!) is the 13th episode of Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.
Arriving at the Navel Island, Ash and co. meet Danny. After climbing the mountain, Ash sees Danny is the Gym Leader of the island. Despite the charming personality, Danny still has skill on his side and after a pair of slides are made, Ash and Danny have a race. However, they get ambushed by Team Rocket, who attempt to ruin the plan.
Episode plot
The heroes see from far the Navel Island, with a large mountain in the middle of it. Misty wonders which badge can be obtained. Tracey responds that it is a Sea-Ruby Badge, a shell with a ruby in it. Arriving to the island, the heroes see the place looks empty and quiet, but suddenly see a man coming after sailing. The man introduces himself as Danny, thinking they are here for challenging the Gym Leader. The heroes introduce themselves, while Danny compliments Misty's name and appearance, making her feel flattered. Team Rocket see them and plan to capture the Pokémon, as usual. The heroes walk to the Gym with Danny. Misty asks what is in his backpack, so Danny responds he has stuff that he should need in the future, when trouble arises. Misty sees he is mature, unlike "some other trainers", causing Ash to be riled up. Danny sees this bickering and thinks that they are close, as the saying goes "you hurt the ones you love". Misty stops and goes with Danny. Tracey believes Danny is another trainer wishing to get the badge, so Ash tells they'll see who is getting the badge first.
They enter the Gym, but are surprised as they are still in exterior, not in a building. Tracey reads a sign that says trainers need to climb the mountain without the use of Pokémon, while others can use the cable car. Ash is surprised by the sign, but Pikachu encourages him to go up, so Ash and Danny climb up. Tracey and Misty tell they will see them at the top, as Misty warns Danny to be careful. Ash becomes angry, but falls down. He regains balance and goes to send Bulbasaur. Danny warns him not to, and he takes his advice, as he will be disqualified. Near the top, Ash and Danny have a break. Ash thanks Danny for helping him out. Suddenly, Pikachu gets captured, as Team Rocket appear. Danny removes the rope from Pikachu and Ash thanks him once more. Meowth goes to capture Pikachu, but Danny places a rock, as Meowth gets it and it bounces into the balloon, piercing it and making Team Rocket blast off. Danny says they don't need troublemakers like them and goes with Ash to climb the rest of the mountain.
Team Rocket are at the snowy part of the mountain and suddenly see a geyser. However, the geyser causes the balloon to be blasted off once more. Danny and Ash continue walking, although the snow causes the cold for Ash. Pikachu falls down, so Ash wraps him in his jacket to keep him warm. At the top, Ash sees Tracey and Misty who come to him. However, Misty passes him, asking Danny if he wants her blanket, but he refuses. Danny tells Ash he passed the first test, but Ash is confused. So, Tracey and Misty tell that it was obvious Danny is the Gym Leader (which he confirms) and climbing the mountain was the first test. Danny tells Ash he needs to win two out of three challenges. The first one who freezes the water from the geyser wins the first challenge. Danny sends Nidoqueen and Ash sends Lapras to freeze the water. They use Ice Beam, but Nidoqueen was faster to freeze the geyser, so Danny wins the first round.
Second round is to carve a sledge from the ice using three Pokémon. Ash had decided to use Bulbasaur, Pikachu and Charizard, much to Misty's and Tracey's surprise. Misty tells Ash Charizard does not obey him, but Ash is not worried, as Charizard has the firepower. Danny sends Nidoqueen, Scyther and Machoke. Though Scyther and Machoke shape the ice, Ash tries to get Charizard to use Flamethrower. Charizard uses Flamethrower (burning Ash in the process), but this causes the ice to be shaped just like it was required. Danny, Misty and Tracey are surprised by this quick reaction, so Ash thanks his Pokémon. The last challenge is to use the ice slides to go down to the beach. Misty and Tracey already feel this is not going to be easy.
With a beep, Ash and Danny have the race, while Misty and Tracey go to use the cable car to go to bottom. Ash's slide is going to fast and spins, with Danny seeing he is too far behind. However, Danny trips over a hole, so Ash stops. Danny sees his Scyther, Geodude and Electrode are okay. Ash knows Team Rocket dug the hole and they appear. Danny asks if they are his friends, causing Ash to be disgusted by that thought. Pushing a button, Meowth causes Ash and Danny to fall in a hole. Danny remarks his friends' skill and intellect, but Ash denies any of these facts, while Pikachu gets captured. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, but the energy is absorbed. Team Rocket laugh, but get hit by snowballs, as Danny and Ash make them so that Geodude throws them. Using a catapult, Electrode is thrown into Team Rocket's balloon, causing Ash to catch Pikachu, who fell from the balloon.
James sends Victreebel, but gets gnawed. Suddenly, Electrode appears and explodes, causing Team Rocket to blast off (again). Back at the track, Danny and Ash go to complete the race. When the sun shines, Danny and Ash move the slide. Ash's slide goes away, so Danny sees he is winning. However, Ash's slide comes back on track (without much of it left). Ash's slide spins, gaining on speed and coming to the finish line, then going into sea, making a small rainbow to appear. Danny comes to Ash and remarks he chose his Pokémon well and won two challenges. With that, he gives him the Sea Ruby badge. While Tracey and Misty are impressed, Misty is sad that Danny lost. At the end of the day, the heroes depart and wave goodbye to Danny.
- The "Who's that Pokémon?" in this episode is Exeggcute.
- As of this episode, all non-legendary and non-mythical Generation I Pokémon has appeared in the anime.
- In the first scene, Pikachu is standing on Lapras' head but in the next scene he is sitting in front of Ash.
- Though Tracey never met Charizard, he and Misty warned Ash not to use it.
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